Written Question·Home Office·UIN 89659

Asylum: Northern Ireland

Tabled: 11 November 2025
Answered: 17 November 2025

Question

Carla Lockhart

Democratic Unionist PartyUpper Bann

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been relocated to Northern Ireland since January 2024.

Answer

Alex Norris
Northern Ireland is not a dispersal area and asylum seekers are therefore not routed between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. Only those claiming asylum in Northern Ireland are accommodated there. Northern Ireland’s asylum population is however, propor...

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